How do I get the user agent with Flask?

Question

I\'m trying to get access to the user agent with Flask, but I either can\'t find the documentation on it, or it doesn\'t tell me.

Answer 1

If you use

request.headers.get('User-Agent')

you may get: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.101 Safari/537.36

If you use

request.user_agent

you may get like this:

• user_agent.platform: windows
• user_agent.browser: chrome
• user_agent.version: 45.0.2454.101
• user_agent.language: None
• user_agent.string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/45.0.2454.101 Safari/537.36